Woodsy Creatures: Sweet Birthday Wishes with Anni

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Isn't this hedgehog from the set Woodsy Creatures the cutest?
I still had a colored milk shake from this card left (from the set Sock Hop) so I decided a hedgehog wants to drink a milk shake now and then, too. I love it when different sets come together so easily.

I stamped and colored all of the images that I wanted to use in my little scene and then I fussy cut them.

For the background I added some ink blending to my cardbase. I used Distress Inks in Cracked Pistachio and Mermaid Lagoon. I love to add splatters of water to my background for that bleached effect.

The Sweet Word die is one of my favorite so I decided it would go perfectly with the milk shake. I die cut it several times from turquoise cardstock and once from white cardstock. I stacked it up to get some dimension.  The rest of the sentiment is from the Sweet Shoppe set. I stamped it in Versamark and heat embossed it in white on black cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by and have a sunny week.

Anni

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

        

 

Sock Hop Cool Cat Card with Lexa

Hi everyone. Lexa here today to share a manly card (oh, I hope it's manly enough) using Sock Hop stamp and coordinating dies. The idea is to put these cat in the spotlight, I think it would be really cool. He's jamming along with the music that came from the jukebox.

I start with a panel of Neenah Solar White cardstock, and blend some Distress Inks for the background. I put unsticky tape for masking the spotlight.  I blend some Chipped Saphire and as for the spotlight I blend Squeezed Lemonade and a little bit of Mustard Seed on the top part of the card. After finished with the blending, I splatter some white paint randomly.

I stamped all the images with Versafine Onyx Black on a piece of watercolor paper and colored them with Distress Markers. I did a little bit of trick on his left hand, I cut it with craft knife and turn it upside down as if it did a chord. For this card, I choose few shades of color just to make sure everything match together. The denim patterned paper looks so cool in this card, I thought it goes together really really well. Don't you think so?

I hope you enjoy my card, and wish you a wonderful Friday! :)

Sock Hop 1950's Retro Jukebox Card with Vanessa

Hi sweet Sunny Studio friends!  Vanessa here with a card using Sock Hop. This set is so fun and I haven't seen anything like it before. I love the adorable jukebox, so I used it for my card:

I applied orange dye ink to the middle part of the cardstock panel and stamped my sentiment. Then I stamped and heat-embossed the notes to the inked part and adhered the panel to my card with foam tape. I stamped the jukebox, colored it with Copics, die-cut it with matching dies and adhered it with foam tape. Finally I added matching sequins around the notes.

I hope you liked today's project! Thank you so much for stopping by!

Vanessa

Sock Hop 1950's Hip Chick Retro Car Card with Lindsey

Hi, Lindsey here today sharing a card using the fun and adorable new Sock Hop stamp set. This is such a unique set and the little 50's critters are just too cute. Let's get started!

To begin, I started with an A2 size card base made from some black and white checked patterned paper. I cut a strip of teal cardstock and a smaller strip of pink patterned paper. I layered the pink on top of the teal and centered it on the card base. I also cut a cloud background to set the scene. 

Once I had the background ready, I stamped out the car and little sock hop dog from the set. I colored both images with Copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I stamped my sentiment from the Sock Hop set on the cloud background. Then I was ready to put down my other images. I put the car down with some regular adhesive. To add some dimension, I popped the little dog up with some foam tape. Finally, I added some sparkle to the car with my Wink of Stella pen. That's it!

I hope you liked my card today. Be sure to check back to the blog for more inspiration. Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Sock Hop: What's Shakin'? Card with Anni

Hey stampers, Anni here with a card using the stamp set Sock Hop and the coordinating dies.

I love the extra word die in the coordinating die set and decided to create a background with the word cool. I die cut several words from coral, pink and aqua cardstock. I didn't used always the same cardstock, just the same shade of color. It is perfect to use up your scrap (or should I say a few of them?). For perfect alignment I drew lines with a pencil. Then I adhered the die cuts to the card base.

For the focal point I went with a small images because I didn't want to cover too much of my background because it took quite some time to create it. I stamped both ice shakes from the stamp set, did some fast Copic coloring  and die cut them with the matching dies.
I die cut a circle from matching cardstock and assembled the card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a sunny week!

Anni

Sock Hop Diner Style Card with Eloise

Hi everyone, Eloise here today and I'm here making a fun Diner style card using more images from the Sock Hop stamp set. I love this set, it's so super fun and as soon as I found out about this stamp set I had the idea of using the picnic blanket from the Summer Picnic set as the Diner floor.

To begin my card today I started off with the floor since I knew it would be the most time consuming part. For this I used my MISTI tool but by all means you could do this with an acrylic block, I just found it a little easier using this tool. Since the picnic blanket image has some extra lines at the bottom to make it look thicker, I had to do some masking to make sure this didn't disrupt my image stamping. Since it was straight though, I just used some post it notes for this, but you could use just about anything. So I stamped down my first image in the left hand bottom corner of the card, then I would clean off my stamp and reposition it next to the part I just stamped. I would then use my post it notes to mask off the outer edges of my already stamped image and then stamp down again.  When I finished my bottom layer of stamping, I moved my stamp above and stamped again until the background was completed. I hope this is making sense. 

Once the floor was stamped, I also stamped out the little characters in the set along with the jukebox, guitar and music notes. I then coloured all these elements in with some Copic Markers. Once they were coloured, I die-cut them out.

For the top portion of my tiled background I decided to make it red. So I masked off the tiles at the bottom and used a couple of red Distress Inks to ink blend the top of the panel. For the sentiment I used the 'What's Shakin'?' sentiment from the same Sock Hop stamp set and white heat embossed it onto a piece of black cardstock. Now it's time to arrange my card. I adhered down all the images using some foam adhesive for added dimension, along with the sentiment. I then popped up the entire panel on a sheet of fun foam and then adhered it down onto a card base and that finished up my card.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed my card today and got inspired. I had a lot of fun making this card today and I love it when stamps can be used in various different ways. Make sure you check out the blog this week to see how everyone else used this stamp set.

- Eloise

Sunny Studio Products Used:

• Sock Hop
• Sock Hop Dies
• Summer Picnic

Guest Designer Spotlight: Cards with Debbie Olson

Hello there!  I'm so excited to welcome Debbie Olson to the blog today.  I have admired her mad coloring skills and great eye for design for years.  I was over the moon excited to meet her for the first time earlier this year and even more thrilled when she agreed to be our special guest!

Good morning!  Debbie Olson here, privileged to be a guest of Sunny Studio today! When Mendi shared her new release, I knew that I’d love playing with it; so today I have cards using the Sweet Shoppe and Sock Hop stamp sets to share.

First up is Sweet Shoppe—so many fun images to color in this set! I couldn’t decide upon just one, so I chose to use three of them, with a clean and simple layout. I colored my images with Copic markers and die-cut them, airbrushed a splash of YR31 to warm up the white background behind the sweet treats, stamped my sentiment, and them used foam tape to pop up the images.

I used the strawberry again on the inside of my card, along with a continuation of the sentiment.

Shown above are the Copic markers that I used to color the Sweet Shoppe images.

Next is the Sunny Studio Sock Hop stamp set; this set has a TON of possibilities! I chose Cool Cat for my first card, pairing him up with some Lily Bee Design Pinwheel papers.  I stamped the jukebox lightly as a backdrop for Cool Cat, and die-cut both Cool Cat and his guitar to pop up with foam tape in the foreground

Here are the Copics that I used to color Cool Cat.

Finally, I created a “guy card” for someone who loves his Chevys. I had already colored my Sock Hop image before I looked for patterned paper, which turned out not to be such a good idea when I had not a single blue in my stash that went with the blues I had used on my classic car! After several “didn’t quite work” backgrounds, I finally airbrushed a background for my car, using many of the same colors that I had used to color the car. Because I didn’t want the background to compete with the car image, I used a piece of vellum on top of my airbrushed background, gluing it under the car, and also attaching it with the same brads that attached my sentiment panel. 

Shown above are the markers that I used to color the classic car. (If you are looking for color and shading ideas on this car, google ’57 Chevy images—you’ll find an abundance of them!)

I hope that these ideas are helpful with your Sunny Studio Sweet Shoppe and Sock Hop stamp sets. A huge thanks to Mendi for inviting me to Sunny Studio today!

Debbie Olson

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Interactive Slider Car Father's Day Card with Eloise

Hello everyone, Eloise here and today I have a fun slider Father's Day card featuring the new Sock Hop stamp set along with a couple of stamps sets from the past release - Island Getaway and Stars and Stripes. I was really inspired to make this card for my Dad for Father's Day, since he loves old cars and I think this car image is perfect for a interactive card. 

To begin my card today I stamped out my images from the Sock Hop and Island Getaway stamp sets and used my Copic Markers to colour them in. I then fussy cut out the images with some scissors right along the black line.

I then moved on to creating my scene. For my background I used various colours of Distress Inks to create a sunset, I like to blend on watercolour cardstock because I find it gives a nicer blend. Once I blended the sunset, I used a yellow Distress Ink to make a sun on a separate bit of watercolour paper and then used the circle die from the Fresh and Fruity Coordinating Dies to cut it out. Once that bit was done I cut another piece of watercolour cardstock down and used a curved die to cut the curve on the top of the piece of paper - you could use scissors to do that too. I then took a grey and black Distress Ink to colour the curved piece to look like a road.

Once my ink blending was complete it was time to make the interactive portion of my card. I used a die to cut the the strip in the center of my black ink blended panel, but you could also use a exacto knife and a ruler to create the opening also - I just had a die so I used it. Once that was cut out of the panel I cut some squares of cardstock, adhered and layered them all up to create high enough block to allow my car to slide through - you could also use a coin or something else to do this, but I didn't want my car to slide without actually physically moving it myself. I then took the 'You're My Hero' sentiment from the Stars and Stripes stamp set and white heat embossed it onto my sunset panel in the center towards the top. Now it was time to put my card together.

I started off with adhering the sun flat onto the background also in the center. I then took the two palm trees I stamped, coloured and cut and then foam mounted them onto each sides of the card and cut off the excess. I then used some foam adhesive to pop up my black ink blended panel. But before I adhered it down to my card I cut a strip of white cardstock and placed it under the ink blended panel between the foam adhesive but so I could see it through the die cut strip in the cardstock. I then adhered down my square block onto that white strip and then adhered my coloured car on top of that square block piece. Now I could adhere down the black ink blended piece onto the card base and that finished up my card for today.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and got inspired to create an interactive card, they are so super fun to make! Make sure you check out the blog the rest of the week for more fabulous cards by the design team!

- Eloise

Sunny Studio Products Used:

• Sock Hop
• Island Getaway
• Stars and Stripes
• Fresh and Fruity Dies

Inspiration Week: Introducing Sock Hop 1950's Inspired Set

I thought today when never arrive.  I have been so excited to finally share some cards using one of my favorite stamp sets from the release (who am I kidding though, they're all my favorites).  The set is called Sock Hop and it includes iconic pop culture images from the 50's with a playful twist.

Up first is a card focusing on the poodle skirt wearing dog, the Letterman sweater wearing cat and the little ice cream soda images from the set.  I didn't have room to include a table when creating the stamps so I created my own table by using the tree trunk from Summer Picnic as my table base and tracing two oval shadow die-cuts with a sharpie from the Sunny Borders die set to form my table top.  For my black and white tile I drew my own floor using this post by Sandy Allnock as inspiration.

I heat embossed a scalloped border in white on black cardstock using the Sunny Borders Stamps and Dies and then repeated the ice cream soda motif on some cardstock inked up with Spun Sugar Distress Ink.

Up next is a card focusing on the fun car from the set.  I love that it can fit the critters in the car--They almost remind me of a set of kids riding along in a 1950's Pedal Car.
To set my scene I loosely sketched out my street in pencil, fussy cut it out, erased the pencil lines and then inked it up with Black Soot Distress ink.  Before adhering it to my card I inked up a panel in Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn and then added some texture with my Copic Markers.  When I was done I cut off a little wavy portion along the top to form my horizon and adhered it to my card base which had been inked up Tumbled Glass ink.  To complete my scene I added trees to the background from our Happy Home stamp set.

Up next is a card spotlighting the cute jukebox from the set.  I thought it would be fun to use the checkered blanket from our Summer Picnic set to form my black & white tiled floor.  This is a great option if you're nervous drawing your own.  I'm sure there is a great way to mask it off to repeat the design, but in the end I decided to stamp 4 of them and just cut them out (which is so easy to do with the straight lines) and then to adhere them on the card so that they formed one continuous design.  

For my last card I used Silhouette's Circle Burst cutting file.  I opened it up in the Silhouette software and then added a 4.25 x 5.5 rectangle over the top.  I used the align commands to center them together and then trimmed it to leave just the areas where the two shapes overlapped. It left me with these rays which were so easy to quickly cut out and apply to my card panel.  

I then stitched through the center of each ray with my sewing machine and covered up the messy intersection with a 3-1/2" wide circle cut from white cardstock.  For my kitty image I added the sunglasses and guitar accessories from the set and one of the fun retro sentiments from the set.

Here's an official look at the new Sock Hop set with the coordinating dies.  I spent quite a bit of time researching popular catch phrases from the decade and had a blast creating this one.  I hope you like it.  :)

     

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